Khmer Rouge
n 1: a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became
a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom
Penh and created a government that killed an estimated
three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but
remained active until 1999 [syn: {Khmer Rouge}, {KR},
{Party of Democratic Kampuchea}, {Communist Party of
Kampuchea}]